7. Meet the Spartans
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 2%
Razzie Awards: 0 (5 Nominations)
Box-Office Gross: $84,646,831
Before the heady critical heights of Vampires Suck the Friedberg/Seltzer stable brought us Meet the Spartans. Painted on six-packs and homo-eroticism were order of the day here, just as they were in 300, the film it is meant to be parodying. Zach Snyder and Frank Miller were fully aware of the underlying homo-erotic subtext of their film and in pointing that out in as facile a fashion possible one really isn’t earning one’s keep now is one? Possibly the funniest thing about Meet the Spartans is that it features an actor called Travis Van Winkle. Talk about damning with non-existent praise…
Meet The Spartans therefore piggybacked it’s way to box-office success despite being given an absolute kicking by not only the critics but seemingly whoever went to see it as well. But opening weekends are rarely affected by word of mouth and when you’ve taken almost $20,000,000 domestically the end result for a film like this will rarely be disappointing.
